ISRO links up 400 sites—100 medical colleges, 300 district HQs and NICD—via EDUSAT to speed up epidemic responses, information exchange. Nine states covered so far, all of India will be by ’07.
EVO Morales, 46, socialist leader and coca farmer, is Bolivia’s first indigenous president. The Aymara Indian is the latest victor in South America’s Left resurgence.
Edward N. Hall, 91, Minuteman Institute head and father of solid fuel technology and the icbm, dies. From the late ’40s, he oversaw the US’ advances in rocket and missile technology.
Kosovo prez Ibrahim Rugova, 61, dies. The ethnic Albanian independence war, and the Serb backlash, is still a UN subject.
Turkey drops charges against author Orhan Pamuk for his comments on the Ottomans’ Armenian massacres.
